Good job... BOTH of you!!!!
What is the total amount that Mazy eats in a 24 hour period?
Thanks Lola. And Pookie and Dee too.
Well it's still a work in progress. When she was eating 50/50 canned/Rad cat and went through that period of losing weight she was up to 4.6 ounces total a day. It was a real challenge to manage to get it all into her each day.
But when I went to 80% raw, I soon realized I was going to have to cut back, and now I am still working it out.
It's looking like between the Rad Cat, the prey model with liver and egg shell calcium, and the muscle meat and Food Fur Life EZcomplete, she's going to be maintaining at about 4 ounces a day.
Queen Eva is eating MUCH less, now that she is eating more raw, including EZcomplete meals. She's eating about 3.5 ounces a day now,about 2.3-2.8 of that is raw and .7-1.2 of it is canned (depending on whether it's Stella &Chewy night or Prey Model night). Soon it will be all raw, and then she may drop down to 3.25 oz I think or even 3.
Since Jennie still has the most canned she is still at 3.9 oz a day. I hate that Tiki cat now and if I hadn't just had $200 worth of it delivered last month I wouldn't be feeding it any more. It is way over rated and way over priced. And the customer service is non existent.
I am preparing myself for the increase in work, when it is gone. My problem remains, too little freezer space. I can't stock up on meat because I have no place to put it. So I have to wait until what I am using is almost gone before I can buy it and cut up more, and I only have room for a few weeks worth of meals, even less when they go all raw.
When I do cut up meat for freezing, often I have to take stuff out of the freezer and put it in the cooler while the cut up meat is freezing, because there is just no space.
I am cutting up two tubs of Rad cat every 10 days right now, for Mazy cat. I was hoping to be able to cut back on that with the EZcomplete instead, but she doesn't like it enough to eat it two meals in a row. She'll eat it with her pre-meal which is .55 oz of meat and the proportionate EZ. She eats it with great enthusiasm, in fact. But if I use it again for supper meal, she balks at the second and third serving.
I like to give her prey model meals with liver, pancreas and egg shell calcium for supper, but I can't find a regular source of organic non GMO chicken liver. I get the liver from the giblets package when I buy a Coleman roaster, but I can only roast so many chickens, you know? I save the carcasses for soup, but that takes me right back to no place in the freezer to keep them.
Their morning routine has now changed, because of Mazy cat and Queen Eva's reduced total intake. They are having some trouble adjusting, they are used to another meal after I get out of the shower, and then Mazy cat had another one after that!
But Queen Eva eats only one meal in the morning now (she started it by consistently refusing her second serving, so that is now her lunch), and with Mazy cat's cut back, her last two breakfast meals have become one for lunch and one for bedtime.
So Jennie is getting her entire breakfast portion all at once, which I think will be good for her, to feel very full all at once, but she's still looking for that second meal anyway. I know they'll get used to it, but I did get a twinge of guilt this morning as I saw the two of them (Mazy cat and Jennie) waiting in the kitchen for a meal that never came. I told them why, but they held out for a few minutes longer before finally giving up.